Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.